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- 1 weeks ago41 min
Fit Fascists v. Fat Foucauldians // 266
Another discourse has hit the timeline. Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsIs health fascism? Is Ozempic Zyklon-B? Should Gabriel Rockhill have to approve every leftist monograph prior to publication? All this and more, in what what was supposed to be the intro to our episode on collective violence
- 3 weeks ago1h 9m
Palantir's "Marxist Critical Theory" CEO // 263
Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe business press has pushed the "leftist-outsider-dishevelled-genius" about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp for a decade. This episode we explore Karp's relationship with critical theory and the mythmaking that has produced his significance. NYT pushes the mythology of Alex Karp https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.htmlAdorno and the Palantir Manifesto https://smtsmtpostmodern.substack.com/p/palantir-flunks-out-of-the-frankfurtPalantir Goes to the Frankfurt School https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/
- Aug 18, 20261h 23m
Today is' Arday // 264
The Pill Pod debates the academic and ethics perspectives' following the terminal end of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal.
- Aug 14, 20261h 1m
The Right's Recycled Mythology of Far-Left Terrorism // 261
Ad-free listens (even with no subscription) at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsStephen Miller and Marco Rubio are calling The Left strange combinatory insults, such as ugly-terrorists and dark-cancers. We review these old signifying chains and Erik introduces Stuart Hall's explanation from last time this happened, when back in the 60s when they said The Left were all gay muggers planning to rob civilized people on their way home from church.
- Jul 21, 20261h 31m
Nature's Leftist Conspiracy against Western Civilization: Contemporary Mythology // 260
Socialist are to blame for the Forest Fires. Antifa caused Algae to take over the reflecting pool. Conservatives believe that nature has allied with their enemies to undermine their authority and Western vicilization. We discuss many instances of the opposition of culture/nature in recent news, political theory, and most importantly Twitter discourse.Video essay referenced: https://youtu.be/ZFOSdqhpuaI?si=86JJOjAuxQl7lrhvJoin up for more content https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
- Jul 7, 20261h 16m
LLMs prove Structuralism was Correct all Along // 258
Join for ad-free and more episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThere's only been about a century of structuralism. It had a day, then in the 80s haters celebrated its falloff. But today, the LLMs designed according to the precepts of structuralist linguistics have proven Saussure's intuitions were more accurate than even he could have suspected. We read the argument from Language Machines by Leif Weatherby (https://amzn.to/4bipjYu)
- Jul 2, 202620 min
Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)
This week we evaluate a paper written by a Google DeepMind engineer which, in effect updates the Chinese Room Thought Experiment (Searle, 1980) to modern LLMs.Get this episode and hundreds more https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
- Jun 29, 20261h 12m
What Computers Will (Still) Never Do: Dreyfus vs. AI // 256
Join for ad-free and more episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsHubert Dreyfus loved recounting how he was maligned for his AI skepticism, which was informed by applications of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and turned out to be correct as of 2007. Is he still correct in the age of LLMs and self-driving cars?Link to article:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370207001452
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